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consider this, rolling out a plan with $9 trillion in deficit reduction and grover norquist panned it because it closes some tax loopholes. coburn told nbc, this is a sick place. i mean, think about it. you don't want to make this deal because it's good for the country but it's bad for me? we need a bunch of spinal transplants in both parties. so what is the public stand about this? a massive messaging war, if you will, between the two parties for the last three or four week. the new nbc/"wall street journal" poll and i can tell you one thing it's pretty decisive. that's tonight on the "nbc nightly news," all about the debt ceiling as well as an update on where the presidential race stands. >>> speaking of purity any politics, the house votes today on its so-called cut, cap and balance legislation. it cuts the deficit, catches federal spending as a percent of the economy and requires passage of a balanced budget amendment with a two-thirds majority for tax increases before the debt limit is raised. almost certain to die in the senate. the president promised to veto the bill, of course
consider this, rolling out a plan with $9 trillion in deficit reduction and grover norquist panned it because it closes some tax loopholes. coburn told nbc, this is a sick place. i mean, think about it. you don't want to make this deal because it's good for the country but it's bad for me? we need a bunch of spinal transplants in both parties. so what is the public stand about this? a massive messaging war, if you will, between the two parties for the last three or four week. the new...
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threatening to blow up the economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless democrats adopt the grover position on the deficit. here's how the president responded to the republicans. >> never in our history has the united states defaulted on its debt. the debt ceiling should not be something that uses a gun against the heads of the american people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners or oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of oil -- gasoline has gone up so high. the notion that the u.s. is going to default on its debt is just irresponsible, and my expectation is that over the next week to two weeks, that congress, working with the white house, comes up with a deal that solves our deficit, solves our debt problems, and makes sure that our full faith and credit is protected. >> joining me now is gene sperling, the director of the economic council, gene, thanks so much. you were in the white house in 1995, the last time there was a democratic president in a republican-led house. what do you think has changed, what strikes you as different t
threatening to blow up the economy by refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless democrats adopt the grover position on the deficit. here's how the president responded to the republicans. >> never in our history has the united states defaulted on its debt. the debt ceiling should not be something that uses a gun against the heads of the american people to extract tax breaks for corporate jet owners or oil and gas companies that are making billions of dollars because the price of oil --...
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grover norquist, hall monitor when it comes to the anti-tax pledge has given house republicans a hall pass. >> but then norquist tried to reverse himself with chris jansing on this station today. >> there are things the public would clearly understand tax increase. americans for tax reform would oppose any effort to weaken, reduce or not continue the 2001 2001-2003 bush tax cuts. >> but "the washington post" has audio of his original comments. >> that's right, not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. >> so it does not violate the pledge? >> we wouldn't hold it that way. a lot of the guys on the hill do. >> so even now he now wants to deny it, norquist was trying to give house republicans a way out. they certainly need a way out for the good of the country. new. hey ! chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ? chocolate ! chocolate it is ! yeah, but i'm new, too. umm... he's new... er... than you. even kids know it's wrong to treat new friends better than old friends. at ally bank, we treat all our customers fairly, with no teaser rates and no minimum deposit to open. it's j
grover norquist, hall monitor when it comes to the anti-tax pledge has given house republicans a hall pass. >> but then norquist tried to reverse himself with chris jansing on this station today. >> there are things the public would clearly understand tax increase. americans for tax reform would oppose any effort to weaken, reduce or not continue the 2001 2001-2003 bush tax cuts. >> but "the washington post" has audio of his original comments. >> that's right,...
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grover norquist, hall monitor when it comes to the anti-tax pledge has given house republicans a hall pass. >> but then norquist tried to reverse himself with chris jansing on this station today. >> there are things the public would clearly understand tax increase. americans for tax reform would oppose any effort to weaken, reduce or not continue the 20 2001-2003 bush tax cuts. >> but "the washington post" has audio of his original comments. >> that's right, not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. >> so it does not violate the pledge? >> we wouldn't hold it that way. a lot of the guys on the hill do. >> so even now he now wants to deny it, norquist was trying to give house republicans a way out. they certainly need a way out for the good of the country. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service,
grover norquist, hall monitor when it comes to the anti-tax pledge has given house republicans a hall pass. >> but then norquist tried to reverse himself with chris jansing on this station today. >> there are things the public would clearly understand tax increase. americans for tax reform would oppose any effort to weaken, reduce or not continue the 20 2001-2003 bush tax cuts. >> but "the washington post" has audio of his original comments. >> that's right,...
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. >> in 1886, president grover cleveland signed a bill authorizing the building. construction began the following year. the architect was thomas lincoln casey of the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> he is famous in washington for getting us out of two architectural masses. -- messes. one was the old executive office building. the more famous achievement was completing the washington doc -- washington monument. >> general casey was also successful with the library of congress. as shown here in these photos taken by the nephew of mathew brady. >> the outside of the building was completed in 1893. general casey brought in his son, edward, to design the interior. >> they had this idea of adding these american decorators until the building was practically finished. >> they started assembling the teams of artists, painters, sculptors. it is all pretty much done between night -- 1892 and 1897. part of the reason they were able to do that is a lot of these artists are coming off of it working in chicago where they had to create this amazing city from plaster and whatever.
. >> in 1886, president grover cleveland signed a bill authorizing the building. construction began the following year. the architect was thomas lincoln casey of the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> he is famous in washington for getting us out of two architectural masses. -- messes. one was the old executive office building. the more famous achievement was completing the washington doc -- washington monument. >> general casey was also successful with the library of congress....
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i will comment about this grover norquist. i think it is absolutely disgusting -- especially these new republicans have signed their pledge to him even though he says it is not to him as opposed to their pledge to the united states of american citizens. the flat tax -- that has been well proven that that only hurts the middle class than the lower class. the debt ceiling should be taken care of now and they can play their games with this other stuff later. i would very much encouraged everybody to go to the website, alec.com or .org and you will understand what is going on here. is the american legislative exchange council. it is very scary stuff. everybody needs to look it up and see what is going on. this is what is causing these tea baggers to be so staunch. host: elkhound, calif., on our line for republicans. caller: would not raising the debt ceiling be exactly the same as a balanced budget amendment? it would force them to redistribute the money appropriately. i think is the same thing. i don't think they should raise the
i will comment about this grover norquist. i think it is absolutely disgusting -- especially these new republicans have signed their pledge to him even though he says it is not to him as opposed to their pledge to the united states of american citizens. the flat tax -- that has been well proven that that only hurts the middle class than the lower class. the debt ceiling should be taken care of now and they can play their games with this other stuff later. i would very much encouraged everybody...
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grover norquist toll call them -- told all of them to not raise taxes under any reason, host: independent from utah. caller: thank you, c-span. our founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they found out how much money we are putting our children in the dead. but they never wanted the constitution to deal with that. guest: our current levels of debt are sustainable. they are high levels of debt, but as a percentage of gdp, it is a lot lower than greece. it is a lot lower than italy. within the last couple of days, we realize they have serious problems. i do not know if the free market and a particular vision of how high are debt would be relative to gdp. they are huge, relative to the wealth we have it. economies expand over time. we have recessions, we have lifts, and we have declines. over the long term, economies grow. our economy will be much larger 30 years from now than it is today. that does not mean we want fiscal problems or we will be able to balance the books, but i think the notion that the standard of living will be lower 30 years from now than today is completely
grover norquist toll call them -- told all of them to not raise taxes under any reason, host: independent from utah. caller: thank you, c-span. our founding fathers would turn over in their graves if they found out how much money we are putting our children in the dead. but they never wanted the constitution to deal with that. guest: our current levels of debt are sustainable. they are high levels of debt, but as a percentage of gdp, it is a lot lower than greece. it is a lot lower than italy....
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my second question is how did grover norquist have such a grip over the republican politicians? eyeleted might answer off of the year. -- i will take my question of of air. guest: democrats have to be fiscally responsible. they're the ones that actually balanced budget. look at the surplus president clinton created. both times we have had significant deficits in my lifetime or under president reagan and president george bush. bush number two past on this mess. president obama is left trying to pick up the pieces. democrats understand that we cannot take care of the people who need us, seniors, are most vulnerable citizens. we cannot pay for the things we need to do to have jobs in the 21st century. if we did not balance budgets and we did not pay our bills, this is what president obama is so badly trying to do. it is extraordinary to me that when we are facing one of these roughest times in american history produced over a number of years, mostly under president bush that this group in washington and congress is saying that we're going to balance all the challenges that were cre
my second question is how did grover norquist have such a grip over the republican politicians? eyeleted might answer off of the year. -- i will take my question of of air. guest: democrats have to be fiscally responsible. they're the ones that actually balanced budget. look at the surplus president clinton created. both times we have had significant deficits in my lifetime or under president reagan and president george bush. bush number two past on this mess. president obama is left trying to...
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the republican party has been taken over by ideologues either devoted to or terrified by grover nordquist and his no-tax pledge, whatever that means. his republicans refuse to believe countless respected voices and have said over and over how serious a crisis we face if we fail to avoid default. and they've refused a deal brooks called -- quote -- "the mother of all no-brainers" because it violates an arbitrary pledge. never mind the deal is in the best interest of the country and gives republicans much of what they said they want. they walked away from the table. statesman dean atchison, and he was one of our great diplomats and certainly a statesman, said that -- quote -- "negotiating assumes parties more anxious to agree than disagree." it is no wonder then the republicans have refuseed to negotiate. they won't even admit to supporting their own long-held positions if democrats support those positions too. we should all be able to agree we need to reduce the deficit and get our fiscal house in order. democrats and republicans alike have said that. we should all be able to agree we need
the republican party has been taken over by ideologues either devoted to or terrified by grover nordquist and his no-tax pledge, whatever that means. his republicans refuse to believe countless respected voices and have said over and over how serious a crisis we face if we fail to avoid default. and they've refused a deal brooks called -- quote -- "the mother of all no-brainers" because it violates an arbitrary pledge. never mind the deal is in the best interest of the country and...
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we are urging the republicans now to step back, put their party caucuses aside, put their pledges to grover nor quiss aside, and put this country first. we got to get buzzy and roll up our sleeves today and get this job done. >> well, the speaker's plan is on life support and it's time for him to pull the plug. we need to move on to other plans that actually have a chance of passing. even if the speaker is able to beg, borrow, and steal his way 217 republican votes, the bill remains a nonstarter in the senate and the president will never sign it. so the speaker's wasting precious time. every day he spends twisting arms in his caucus we can reason closer to catastrophic default. how many times does he have to throw red meat to the extreme right in his caucus to please them? enough already. let's get moving and get something real done. yesterday in an apparent attempt to rally their caucus, the republicans played a clip from a cops and robber movie, in the scene they chose to inspire their house freshmen, one of the crooks gives a pep talk to the other, right before they both put on hockey ma
we are urging the republicans now to step back, put their party caucuses aside, put their pledges to grover nor quiss aside, and put this country first. we got to get buzzy and roll up our sleeves today and get this job done. >> well, the speaker's plan is on life support and it's time for him to pull the plug. we need to move on to other plans that actually have a chance of passing. even if the speaker is able to beg, borrow, and steal his way 217 republican votes, the bill remains a...
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chamber of commerce and you have grover norquist group, you have allen west and paul ryan has said he's not behind it. >> president obama said he'd veto anything called boehner. here's palin on that. >> he doesn't understand that we have a spending problem in this country. and, you know, back in the day we used to hear that hey, it's the economy stupid. well, now simply put it's the spending, stupid. what's going on now with our bloated, overreaching, fat, nauseating spend from federal government? taking more state and individual control from americans. >> wow, so that's the view from sarah palin who may or may not be a candidate shortly and certainly gets a lot of attention. but i understand, too, the insider story is the president leaning on mitch mcconnell to lean on john boehner to come together with harry reid because believe it or not, there are some similarities between harry reid's plan and john boehner plan and i look back at conservatives like charles krauthammer who said, look, republicans, i don't care what you believe, there's a thing called practicality. and it would be su
chamber of commerce and you have grover norquist group, you have allen west and paul ryan has said he's not behind it. >> president obama said he'd veto anything called boehner. here's palin on that. >> he doesn't understand that we have a spending problem in this country. and, you know, back in the day we used to hear that hey, it's the economy stupid. well, now simply put it's the spending, stupid. what's going on now with our bloated, overreaching, fat, nauseating spend from...
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maybe they'll call those new co-pays user fees so grover norquist and the club for growth will give them a pass. but tell the woman in worcester, who will be forced to go into a nursing home, her taxes will go up. this is an awful bill brought to the floor under an awful process. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reject this cynical effort and get back to work and meaningfully address the budget issues facing this nation. time is running out. we need to get to work to seriously resolve this crisis. reject this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time is reserved. the gentleman from georgia. mr. woodall: i'm confused about time running out and moving too quickly. with that i yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. new gent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. nugent: thank you, mr. speaker. and thank my fell rules committee gentleman from georgia. i rise in support of the rule, h.res. 355 and the underlying legislation, h.r. 2560. mr. speaker, there's no way to get around it.
maybe they'll call those new co-pays user fees so grover norquist and the club for growth will give them a pass. but tell the woman in worcester, who will be forced to go into a nursing home, her taxes will go up. this is an awful bill brought to the floor under an awful process. i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to reject this cynical effort and get back to work and meaningfully address the budget issues facing this nation. time is running out. we need to get to work to seriously...
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speaker, according to grover norquist who is apparently the real republican strategist, this is about ensuring that democrats will never again have the revenue to govern as democrats. but what does he mean by that? is he talking about when roosevelt rescued us from the great depression? in the 1930's? or when we saved the world for democracy in the 1940's? or when we built the middle class with the g.i. bill in the late 1940's? or when we won the race to space in the early 1960's? or when we started medicare and passed civil rights laws in the mid 1960's? or when president clinton raised taxes, balanced the budget, generated $20 million -- 20 million new jobs, cut poverty, grew the middle class, passed on projected surpluses as far as the eye could see and enabled those at the top tax rates to take home more after tax income than in any prior time in american history? the fact is that democrats have made this nation great by investing in all our people and by raising the revenue necessary to meet our obligations and to secure our future. this is the alternative, this is about an ideol
speaker, according to grover norquist who is apparently the real republican strategist, this is about ensuring that democrats will never again have the revenue to govern as democrats. but what does he mean by that? is he talking about when roosevelt rescued us from the great depression? in the 1930's? or when we saved the world for democracy in the 1940's? or when we built the middle class with the g.i. bill in the late 1940's? or when we won the race to space in the early 1960's? or when we...
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speaker, according to grover norquist who is apparently the real republican strategist, this is about ensuring that democrats will never again have the revenue to govern as democrats. but what does he mean by that? is he talking about when roosevelt rescued us from the great depression? in the 1930's? or when we saved the world for democracy in the 1940's? or when we built the middle class with the g.i. bill in the late 1940's? or when we won the race to space in the early 1960's? or when we started medicare and passed civil rights laws in the mid 1960's? or when president clinton raised taxes, balanced the budget, generated $20 million -- 20 million new jobs, cut poverty, grew the middle class, passed on projected surpluses as far as the eye could see and enabled those at the top tax rates to take home more after tax income than in any prior time in american history? the fact is that democrats have made this nation great by investing in all our people and by raising the revenue necessary to meet our obligations and to secure our future. this is the alternative, this is about an ideol
speaker, according to grover norquist who is apparently the real republican strategist, this is about ensuring that democrats will never again have the revenue to govern as democrats. but what does he mean by that? is he talking about when roosevelt rescued us from the great depression? in the 1930's? or when we saved the world for democracy in the 1940's? or when we built the middle class with the g.i. bill in the late 1940's? or when we won the race to space in the early 1960's? or when we...